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Definition: Awol |
AwolAdjective1. Absent without permission; "truant schoolboys"; "the soldier was AWOL for almost a week". 2. (military) having deserted your post or station without leave. Noun1. One who is away or absent without leave. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: AwolSynonym: truant (adj). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
More generally, outside of military contexts, AWOL characterises something absent without leave: missing or gone.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "AWOL."
Crosswords: Awol |
| English words defined with "awol": truant. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Quite an AWOL problem. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Bulgaria | On July 22, a military police officer shot and killed 21-year-old Sevgin Asan, an AWOL soldier. (references) |
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| "Awol" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 40.00% of the time. "Awol" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adverb (general) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
awol | 121 | awol marine | 3 |
awol bush | 44 | awol going | 3 |
awol one | 27 | army awol us | 2 |
army awol | 14 | army awol from | 2 |
awol military | 12 | awol does mean | 2 |
awol bush george w | 5 | awol information | 2 |
awol record | 4 | awol list military | 2 |
awol bush george | 4 | awol magazine | 2 |
awol soldier | 4 | awol meaning | 2 |
awol lyrics one | 4 | awol navy | 2 |
awol definition | 3 | awol consequence | 2 |
awol punishment | 3 | army awol punishment | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "awol"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | самовольная отлучка (absence without leave). (various references) | |
Spanish | ausente sin permiso. (various references) | |
Thai | แหกคุก (คำย่อจาก absent without leave). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nghỉ không xin phép. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "awol": awols. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: alow. | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-o-w" | |
-1 letter: awl, law, low, owl. | |
-2 letters: al, aw, la, lo, ow, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-o-w" | |
+1 letter: aglow, allow, awols, waldo, woald. | |
+2 letters: allows, avowal, barlow, callow, fallow, hallow, logway, mallow, oilway, outlaw, sallow, sawlog, tallow, wadmol, wallop, wallow, woalds. | |
+3 letters: airflow, airglow, allowed, avowals, awlwort, barlows, batfowl, cowflap, dayglow, dowable, fallows, flowage, folkway, gallows, hallows, lawbook, lockjaw, logways, lowball, lowland, mallows, oilways, outbawl, outlaws, outwalk, ownable, peafowl, plowman, rollway, rowable, salchow, sallows, sallowy, sawlogs, seafowl, shallow, sowable, swallow, tallows, tallowy, teabowl, tollway, wadmoll, wadmols, waldoes, walkout, wallops, wallows, warlock, warlord, whoopla, wolfram, womanly, woolhat, woolman, woorali. | |
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